Your Statement is Inside

Show Dates: Wednesday, June 19
through Sunday, August 4, 2013

Artist Reception: Sunday June 23 3-5pm

SOWA First Friday: July 5 and
August 2, 5-8

Gallery
Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 12-6pm

Introducing my first solo exhibit at Boston Sculptors Gallery June 19 through August 4,
2013. The show, Your Statement is Inside,
will showcase my woven and felted silk, wool and steel sculptures that
correlate with outdoor public art installation, the Lighthouse, for the group show Convergence, situated on the Christian Science Plaza in Boston,
Massachusetts.

For
these two shows I collected raw wool from New England farms, which then were woven and felted into sculptural forms. One piece titled Penelope’s Sail, is made from silk and merino wool and then used inDouble
Edge Theatre’s summer production of The
Odyssey, where I collaborates on set design. Night after night Penelope
(Odysseus’ wife, played by Hannah Jarrell) and the wind and rain opened the felt
into a beautiful lacy material. I then worked it into what I believe Penelope’s sail would look like if she ever had made one to sail away from
Ithaka.

Another
piece, Untitled (5x5), a 5x5 foot
steel and wool cube, continues my aesthetic of The Lighthouse by mixing elements of light, and urban and rural
materials inside the gallery.

Your Statement is Inside will be shown concurrently
with Pilgrimage by Kalimah Muhammad
and Convergence, at the Christian
Science Plaza

Students from different universities who are interested in environmental art are welcome through a selected process to intern during the summer and school year. Many students get college credit and have been awarded grants for this opportunity. We welcome all majors. Past interns have been in environmental studies with minors in studio art, religion, architectural and landscape design, food systems, climate justice, art history, for example. Typically we will collaborate with a farm, making work in response to the landscape, people and animals surrounding us. All artistic disciplines are explored. Many times we are experimenting with materials to see what future projects can be realized, other times we are working on a specific project that needs to head out for an exhibition. The studio is dedicated to using art as a communicator of the environmental crisis we all face.